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  • Landscape, Materiality and Heritage

    An Object Biography

    de Tim Edensor ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book focuses on a single artefact, the Barochan Cross, a ninth century stone sculpture in Renfrewshire, Scotland. Exploring the changing stories, meanings, locations, uses and feelings of the sculpture, Tim Edensor adopts a broad temporal frame across twelve centuries that moves away from a periodisation that solely considers its original meanings and uses. Narrating the shifting ways in ... Leer más

    $44.99 USD

  • From Light to Dark

    Daylight, Illumination, and Gloom

    de Tim Edensor ...
    Light pervades the world, and when it is not light, darkness emerges and is combated by electric illumination. Despite this globally shared human experience in which spaces appear radically different depending on time, season, and weather, social science investigation on the subject is meager. From Light to Dark fills this gap, focusing on our interaction with daylight, illumination, and darkness ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD

  • National Identity, Popular Culture and Everyday Life

    de Tim Edensor ...
    The Millennium Dome, Braveheart and Rolls Royce cars. How do cultural icons reproduce and transform a sense of national identity? How does national identity vary across time and space, how is it contested, and what has been the impact of globalization upon national identity and culture?This book examines how national identity is represented, performed, spatialized and materialized through popular ... Leer más

    $52.99 USD

  • Stone

    Stories of Urban Materiality

    de Tim Edensor ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    In undertaking a systematic analysis of urban materiality, this book investigates one kind of material in Melbourne: stone. The work draws on a range of pertinent, current theories that consider materiality, assemblages, networks, phenomenology, resource and extraction geographies, memorialisation, maintenance and repair, place identity, skill, sensation and affect, haunting and the vitalism of ... Leer más

    $80.99 USD

  • Tourists at the Taj

    Performance and Meaning at a Symbolic Site

    de Tim Edensor ...
    Series series International Library of Sociology
    Clearly written and fascinatingly illustrated, Tourists at the Taj describes the conflicting narratives which surround the site. For some the Taj is an evocative symbol of the colonial past. For others it is a symbolic centre of Islamic power. For many of the thousands of tourists that visit it each year it is simply a monument of love.The author shows how tourism can be seen as a performance and ... Leer más

    $101.99 USD

  • Travels in Paradox

    Remapping Tourism

    de Kathleen Adams, Tim Edensor, Steven Flusty, Jessica Jacobs, Pauliina Raento, John Urry, Soile Veijola, Ning Wang, Mike Crang ...
    This innovative volume focuses on tourism through the twin lenses of cultural theory and cultural geography. Presenting a set of innovative case studies on tourist destinations around the world, the contributors explore the paradoxes of the tourist experience and the implications of these paradoxes for our broader understanding of the problems of modernity and identity. The book examines how ... Leer más

    $49.99 USD

  • Rethinking Darkness

    Cultures, Histories, Practices

    Edición de Nick Dunn, Tim Edensor ...
    Series series Ambiances, Atmospheres and Sensory Experiences of Spaces
    This book examines the concept of darkness through a range of cultures, histories, practices and experiences. It engages with darkness beyond its binary positioning against light to advance a critical understanding of the ways in which darkness can be experienced, practised and conceptualised.Humans have fundamental relationships with light and dark that shape their regular social patterns and ... Leer más

    $62.99 USD

  • The Routledge Handbook of Place

    Edición de Tim Edensor, Ares Kalandides, Uma Kothari ...
    The handbookpresents a compendium of the diverse and growing approaches to place from leading authors as well as less widely known scholars, providing a comprehensive yet cutting-edge overview of theories, concepts and creative engagements with place that resonate with contemporary concerns and debates.The volume moves away from purely western-based conceptions and discussions about place to ... Leer más

    $70.99 USD

  • Geographies of Rhythm

    Nature, Place, Mobilities and Bodies

    Edición de Tim Edensor ...
    In Rhythmanalysis, Henri Lefebvre put forward his ideas on the relationship between time and space, particularly how rhythms characterize space. Here, leading geographers advance and expand on Lefebvre's theories, examining how they intersect with current theoretical and political concerns within the social sciences. In terms of geography, rhythmanalysis highlights tensions between repetition and ... Leer más

    $70.99 USD

  • Urban Theory Beyond the West

    A World of Cities

    Edición de Tim Edensor, Mark Jayne ...
    Since the late eighteenth century, academic engagement with political, economic, social, cultural and spatial changes in our cities has been dominated by theoretical frameworks crafted with reference to just a small number of cities. This book offers an important antidote to the continuing focus of urban studies on cities in ‘the Global North’.Urban Theory Beyond the West contains twenty chapters ... Leer más

    $94.99 USD

  • Spaces of Vernacular Creativity

    Rethinking the Cultural Economy

    Edición de Tim Edensor, Deborah Leslie, Steve Millington, Norma Rantisi ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Human Geography
    Creativity has become part of the language of regeneration experts, urban planners and government policy makers attempting to revive the economic and cultural life of cities in the 21st century. Concepts such as the creative class, the creative industries and bohemian cultural clusters have come to dominate thinking about how creativity can contribute to urban renewal. Spaces of Vernacular ... Leer más

    $67.99 USD

  • From the Lighthouse: Interdisciplinary Reflections on Light

    Edición de Veronica Strang, Tim Edensor, Joanna Puckering ...
    What is a lighthouse? What does it mean? What does it do? This book shows how exchanging knowledge across disciplinary boundaries can transform our thinking. Adopting an unconventional structure, this book involves the reader in a multivocal conversation between scholars, poets and artists. Seen through their individual perspectives, lighthouses appear as signals of safety, beacons of ... Leer más

    $59.99 USD